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A Sense of the World

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A Sense of the World

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Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge

A Sense of the World

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A Sense of the World book

Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge
Edited ByJohn Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, Luca Pocci
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 6 July 2007
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203940273
Pages 360
eBook ISBN 9780203940273
Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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Gibson, J., Huemer, W., & Pocci, L. (Eds.). (2008). A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203940273

ABSTRACT

A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate.

The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic philosophers that combined together provide a comprehensive statement of the variety of ways in which works of fiction can engage questions of worldly interest. It uses the problem of cognitive value to explore:

  • literature’s contribution to ethical life
  • literature’s ability to engage in social and political critique
  • the role narrative plays in opening up possibilities of moral, aesthetic, experience and selfhood

This remarkable volume will attract the attention of both literature and philosophy scholars with its statement of the various ways that literature and life take an interest in one another.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction: the prospects of literary cognitivism: John Gibson

part |1 pages

PART I Knowledge through literary fiction

chapter 2|11 pages

Learning from literature: Peter Lamarque

chapter 3|19 pages

Literary realism, recognition, and the communication of knowledge: Noël Carroll

chapter 4|12 pages

The laboratory of the mind: Catherine Z. Elgin

chapter 5|12 pages

‘‘How Could You?’’: deeper understanding through fiction

chapter 6|22 pages

Aharon Appelfeld and the problem of Holocaust fiction

chapter 7|15 pages

The return of the repressed: caring about literature and its themes: Luca Pocci

chapter 8|15 pages

Lewis Carroll: fugitive from reality?: A. D. Nuttall

part |1 pages

PART II Narrating worlds and selves

chapter 9|17 pages

Philosophy as/and/of literature: Arthur C. Danto

chapter 10|13 pages

The ends of narrative: Richard Eldridge

chapter 11|16 pages

Narrative catharsis: Garry L. Hagberg

chapter 12|22 pages

Postmodern narratives of the past: Simon Schama: Lubomír Doležel

chapter 13|17 pages

En Abyme: Internal models and cognitive mapping: Brian Mchale

chapter 14|10 pages

Traveling stories: Knowledge, activism, and the humanities: Linda Hutcheon

part |1 pages

PART III The poetic, the dramatic, and the real

chapter 15|14 pages

Poetry and cognition: Eileen John

chapter 16|13 pages

Why read literature? The cognitive function of form

chapter 17|20 pages

‘‘The way light at the edge of a beach in autumn is learned’’: Literature as learning: Frank B. Farrell

chapter 18|20 pages

Wonder in The Winter’s Tale: a cautionary account of epistemic criticism: Charles Altieri

part |1 pages

PART IV Imagination, objectivity, and culture

chapter 19|4 pages

Legends and myths: Kendall L. Walton

chapter 20|15 pages

Literature and make-believe: Joseph Margolis

chapter 21|10 pages

Art and the view from nowhere: Alex Burri

chapter 22|14 pages

Culture: A recursive process: Wolfgang Iser

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